Thank Frances it’s Friday.
That can only mean one thing: another music competition.
This week, I want to know: What’s your favourite song of this millennium? So, from 2000-2021.
Reply below to be in with a chance of winning a coveted Currys PC World voucher worth €20.
Here’s mine.
The winner will be chosen by my chef.
Please include video links if possible.
Lines close at Saturday 11am.
Nick says: Good luck!
Earlier: Last week’s winner here.
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Way too many!
It’s like asking which is your favourite child!.
I’ll kick it of with this little beauty, great song and amazing video.
She & Him – Stay Awhile
https://youtu.be/Ni75mYuwvlg
Enjoy.
The Ronettes -Be my baby-
The 60’s vibes, the charms of the Ronettes and, above all, the devilish production of Phil Spector. The song made Brian Wilson pulled over when he first heard it on the radio.
Pure ear candy. Best song ever recorded.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSPpbOGnFgk
Midlake Roscoe
https://youtu.be/JDL9bXlwbM4
Nice one. Was listening to it today.
First time for me – pretty good.
The Last Shadow Puppets – my mistakes
https://youtu.be/9cQloro92xA
Dig!!!, Lazarus Dig!!! by Nicholas Cave. Not to be confused with Nicholas Cage whose relationship with seeds, good or bad, has yet to be determined.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBDkEMBNlXc
Losing my absolute mind to this track in the lashing rain is one of 3, maximum 4 memories I retain of Oxegen 2009
A very fine year
Same album, but Night of the Lotus Eaters very high up my list
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAJQHSbj2kE
He performed it live towards the end of a concert I guess in 2009, was totally terrifying (in a good way).
Abattoir Blues, Dig Lazarus Dig, and Push the Sky Away are three albums which I think are among the best anyone has ever done. Controversial perhas, but I cannot stand his recent stuff.
The song that just gets better and better with every listen,the drum solo at the start to the amazing vocals from a brilliant album!
The National – Bloodbuzz Ohio
https://youtu.be/WgIp1Y2akRA
Enjoy.
Great tune, great band.
It has to be the excellent Philadelphia band The War on drugs and the atmospheric Thinking Of A Place.
This song is on another level and takes you to a happy place which we all need right during level 5.
https://youtu.be/TeaDE1magRk
My absolute favorite song this millennium is Heart Is A Drum from what I think is Beck’s best album, Morning Phase.
https://youtu.be/_6Zp84XH6Eo
It’s rhythmic, syrupy, airy, wonderfully paced and and perhaps almost ethereal. In fact most of that record is.
The mastering of the record was top notch and is an especially beautiful listen on 180g vinyl.
Alicia Keys – If I ain’t got you
https://youtu.be/Ju8Hr50Ckwk
The Walkmen- The Rat
https://youtu.be/aWR1h-5EzUo
Morrissey – Let me kiss you
https://youtu.be/wRbRCNsJJGg
One more great song just popped into my head. Jordan by the magnificent Rival Sons.
This is a song of sheer beauty with amazing vocals by Jay Buchanan.
https://youtu.be/luSb1vXEBec
While I think Nick Cave has probably produced perhaps five of the best albums of the milenium, I think his ex-sheila PJ Harvey produced my favorite song, The Wheel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJfwMDD-4uo
Got tickets to see her live soon after the album came out, pretty soon post Batlacan if I remember. Dr Douglas Home was delayed at work, and we had to drive to the venue and it took forever to park. Got to the front gate 5 minutes after scheduled start, and there was a crowd of hundreds outside. I was gutted. Took a lifetime to get past the troops and the metal detectors (who would have thought it could get worse than that).
PJ waited for practically all the ticket holders to get in before she started. Gave a nice welcome at the beginning, apologised for the delay and did a totally amazing concert. Had earplugs but it was no good, was deafened for two days. How often do you get to see this much brass being played these days. Was just super.
“Seven Nation Army,” The White Stripes
https://youtu.be/0J2QdDbelmY
Very few songs pin you back in sheer wonderment the first time you hear them but more often than not it’s RTE’s John Creedon who plays the best.
The Man In Black was not long for this world but what a swansong he left.
Utterly bizarrely he wrote the song after a dream about Her Majesty The Queen where she compared him to “a thorn tree in a whirlwind.”
To me it represents the spirit,soul and sound of America and Johnny Cash’s tumultuous but amazing life.
I never tire of hearing it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiMXK9eDrMY
Childish Gambino – Redbone
So underrated and so different from anything else, amazing!
Grimes – Oblivion
https://youtu.be/JtH68PJIQLE
I first heard this as the music to an Eircom ad many moons ago. I never, never get tired of playing this; surely, that is the mark of a song that has entered your consciousness in a good way. I love the intro, the fey, wispy vocals that deal with a subject darker than the melody implies. I often think the best songs are constructed like that. Grimes is now viewed through the prism of her relationship with Evil Genius/ World Saviour (delete as appropriate) Elon Musk. This song is from a time when her lo-fi, DIY production ethic was fully intact, and it worked.
Trying to avoid the obvious, this is one of my favourite tracks. I thought this band were going too be massive, with brilliant string arrangements and beautiful vocals.
The Mummers – March Of The Dawn
https://youtu.be/_UMMu_KBRy8
Enjoy.
Ooooh. That is a difficult one.
So many to pick from, but the track that springs to mind is ‘The Architect’ from 90’s Belgian indie darlings dEUS.
This track is from their 5th studio album ‘Vantage Point’ and I caught this tour when it came to the POD back 2008/9.
Live this track was accompanied by a savage light show in time to the music and the place erupted when they played this tune!
https://youtu.be/k2CFDsG_oxg
The band built their own studio to record this track and album and even though the album received mixed reviews, it really shows what a band can achieve when left to their own devices. It’s way more produced than any of their previous work – which I think really works here.
It’s also a great tune to drive to ;)
Probably my favourite video of the era
Arctic Monkeys- Cornerstone
https://youtu.be/LIQz6zZi7R0
It has to be Gorillaz – All alone
Gorillaz, as their genre spanning music has continued to evolve from the early 2000’s to their latest 2020 release, defining the sound of the millennium so far. Demon days is one of the most iconic albums of the last two decades with all alone being the standout track.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHhND-BkWdk
Firefly by Grand Drive
https://youtu.be/4khBHE1psFg
I will never tire of listening to this.
great choice, noa – road music is one of my favourite albums. unfortunately 1999, but:
https://youtu.be/j8waanWWx1U
Artic monkeys do i wanna know. Tuuune
I’ve listened to Leonard Cohen since my teens saw him twice in the stadium in the 80’s and reborn in Royal Hospital in 2008 and every time he visited after that.
“Even though she sleeps upon your satin
Even though she wakes you with a kiss”
Leonard at his best and reborn in the 21st Century. Sharon Robinson got him to sing in a lower octave and between them they took “The God Abandons Antony” written in 1911 by the poet Constantine P. Cavafy and transformed into Alexandra Leaving.
“Do not choose a coward’s explanation
That hides behind the cause and the effect”
To me it speaks of love, live and it’s inevitable end and acceptance.
“Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving
Then say goodbye to Alexandra lost”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hUJxKUS93xY
Keaton Henson – Ontario
https://youtu.be/CZEalAVyKoc
Probably the best 12 minute, narrative Americana this century.
Wilco – One Sunday Morning (Song for Jane Smiley’s Boyfriend)
https://youtu.be/xa2XnouRXKo
Wooden Shjips – These Shadows
https://youtu.be/-ng_dBhjt0s
More beautiful guitar sounds.
Ryan Adams- Two
(If he’s allowed)
https://youtu.be/QmRMw9L0J0U
Never better than here, IMO.
Ryan Adams – Oh My Sweet Carolina
https://youtu.be/-T2MOoFL1rg
Great choice Otis
83 years timeless
The Mighty Lee Scratch Perry
Run Evil Spirits
https://youtu.be/2UWEeZwtgRA
Tim to clean house
New street adventure
What’s the point of happiness
in an acoustic style – other versions available
https://youtu.be/DPDDeqX5kqU
first heard this fella on Jools Holland, along with gregrory porter.
Went digging straight away. Found loads
This one is one of my faves
Odetta
https://youtu.be/xvqqk2yn5W4
Happy Friday
Been saving this one for the reopening of freedom st.
In danger of going stale, what with when it maybe /might be – not what he said,that’s not what he meant !!!
Do what I say, – Happy Saturday
Lack of Afro – Back in Business Baby !
https://youtu.be/spPrSoD7zRc
Remastered in 2000 – sure it is outside the terms of the competition
U Roy – Rivers of Babylon
https://youtu.be/9Vi5Q-fw_6A
Recently left the earth,
wind up the bass, give thanks and praise.
..sat morning with more snow,coffee and some indoor grown Massachusetts flower,which isn’t bad.
Ireland really is blowing its chance to be the center of cultivation,manufacturing and research in the medical and recreational cannabis space,its a multi billion green job creating machine.
It’s inconceivable…. to pick a fav but this would be one,Gino announced a bill on medical cannibals this year,that was back in November,busy man.
When after milking every possible publicity stunt,involving no doubt again sick children and some sympathetic people on long term disability….he releases,his much talked about and promoted bill I will lash something up.
Everyone here appears be planning on back ‘normal’ by September,48 states have medical programs now,New Jersey,New York,Connecticut,Virgina are about join Massachusetts,Vermont,Maine and New Hampshire in allowing anyone over 21 buy an incredible amount of cannabis,grown by people like me:)
The largest legal drug market in the world is about open up,its a good time to know how grow,I hope Ireland wakes up,it’s a snowball rolling downhill,FFG needs get out the way,Ireland’s greens have the unique distinction of being the only environmental party in the world,to oppose legislation- go figure,you get the politicians you deserve.
Get the f*ck out there,locked up like filthy animals,fighting irish my ass….
https://youtu.be/2aVUB0nIONo
George Michael- Going to a town
Fantastic vocal…
Listen without prejudice;)
https://youtu.be/8DZJQjn3jV8
David Keenan – Subliminal Dublinia
Phosphorescent – Song for Zula
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcdOLKx2XG8&list=RDb8EZ3yXWQog&index=19
A beautiful, bittersweet, ballad that captures the un-romance of a breaking relationship.
Saw him in Whelan’s back around 2013 when he was touring this album (Muchacho – give it a listen, it’s incredible) and it was every bit as good in person.
Well Worth checking out Muchacho de Lujo which a deluxe version of the album. It features Houck and minimal accompaniment playing 12 live songs from St Pancras Church in London.
This definitely has its place in my top ten – if only I could remember the other nine.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eVG4Ix9GgFg
Sugababes – Overload.
Might be out of place considering other entrants, but, deserves a mention.
Great video, too!
A lot of excellent Deep House tunes would also be in my top ten – will try and dig some out.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a2jvOf3RjkI
Franc Spangler – Forever And A Dub [Delusions Of Grandeur, 2010]
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eLBsiApVBhI
Deep Dish – Chocolate City (Love Songs)
In case you missed it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=noLHjQNhGFk
Noah Pred – Another Dilemma
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tPtwuQRqTCI
Akihiro – See (Original Mix)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EGjN-ajS0MA
Carsten Rausch – Planquadrat
Anna Calvi – Blackout
https://youtu.be/lo267BTLnZk
Arctic Monkeys – Leave before the lights
https://youtu.be/SEukS2YN9B8
Another great AM video
“When the sun goes down”
https://youtu.be/EqkBRVukQmE
PSB – Home and dry
https://youtu.be/C9o8Z_lBXPM
Just thought of this one on my way to work.
One of the last remaining interesting pop stars
Harry Styles – Sign of the Times
https://youtu.be/qN4ooNx77u0
Going to stick this in;
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PuG2PcTXwNk
Delano Smith – I Fly (Original Mix)
My favourite.
https://m.soundcloud.com/unknown-75-1/g-special-kase-la-barbie-sahara-original-mix
G_Special_Kase – La Barbie Sahara
Nixon was a good guy!